Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs.
Overview
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create and manage a group of load balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule.
Key Resources
News
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| 7/30/2025 |
Architecture
Ansys Minerva baseline architecture has four distributed tiers (client, web, enterprise, and resource) in a single Azure availability zone. Each tier aligns to function and...
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| 7/21/2025 |
When you deploy AKS, you deploy the control plan, which is managed by Microsoft, and one or more node pools, which contain the worker nodes used to run your Kubernetes workloads. These node pools...
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| 7/10/2025 |
Announcing public preview for key security enhancement in Azure: Trusted Launch as default (TLaD) for new deployments of Gen2 Virtual Machines
(VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (Scale set) and...
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| 5/19/2025 |
Evan and Russell host David Stamen and Vaclav Jirovsky from Pure Storage, diving into how they've integrated their Pure Storage solution as an Azure native service.
Media...
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| 4/24/2025 |
As HPC & AI workloads continue to scale in complexity and performance demands, ensuring visibility into the underlying infrastructure becomes critical. This guide presents an essential monitoring...
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| 4/22/2025 |
We are
excited to announce the general availability of instance mix, a new feature
designed to optimize your Virtual Machine Scale Set deployments. Instance
mix allows you to specify multiple...
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| 12/6/2024 |
Authors:
Ioan Dragan (ioan.dragan@microsoft.com)
Ciprian Amzuloiu (camzuloiu@microsoft.com)
Dragos Unguru (ungurud@microsoft.com)
Introduction
The Resilient Ecommerce Reference...
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| 12/3/2024 |
Cale, Evan, Russell and Sujit discuss the recent updates in Azure and specially cover the Azure-related announcements in the recent Ignite 2024 conference.
Media...
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| 11/19/2024 |
We are pleased to announce that the Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
feature is now generally available. This significant enhancement allows
customers to transition their virtual machine scale sets...
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| 11/19/2024 |
We’re excited to announce our new feature that increases
virtual machine create and delete success in your scale sets. Resilient create
and delete initiates auto-recovery from failed create and...
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| 11/19/2024 |
Custom metrics for rolling upgrades enables you to utilize the application health extension to emit custom metrics to your Virtual Machine Scale Set. These custom metrics can be used to tell the...
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| 11/19/2024 |
Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale
Sets is now generally available. Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge can help improve service
uptime during upgrade events. With MaxSurge...
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| 11/19/2024 |
Upgrade policies allow for more granular control over the
upgrade process, ensuring that your services remain available and responsive
during updates. The available upgrade policies are:...
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| 11/19/2024 |
Azure Functions is Azure’s primary serverless code service used in production by hundreds of thousands of customers who run several trillions of executions on it monthly across many different...
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| 11/19/2024 |
The next generation of purpose-built HPC Azure virtual machines
Today during Microsoft Ignite, Satya Nadella unveiled our latest CPU-based virtual machine for HPC customers and their...
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| 11/18/2024 |
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible
Orchestration is now generally available. Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to
increase scaling performance by...
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| 10/17/2024 |
Installation of Argo CD
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It allows you to define the desired state of your applications using Kubernetes manifests and...
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| 10/16/2024 |
In today’s AI and HPC landscapes, GPU monitoring has become essential due to the complexity and high resource demands of these workloads. Effective monitoring ensures that GPUs are utilized...
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| 9/4/2024 |
Sadaf Khan joins Evan and Russell to explain and talk about Service Reliability Engineering in the Azure engineering group.
Media...
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